Doily-mat.



W. N. PARKES.

DOILY MAT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. s, 1906.

1,037,044, Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

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Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

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DOILY MAT.

' APPLIGATIONFILED NOV. e, 1906 1,037,944.

iiNiT WILLIAM N. PARKES, F BROOKLYN, NEW Y COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

ORK, AssIenoR TO THE rARKEs MACHINE A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DOILY-MAT.

- T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM N. PARKES, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, county of Kings, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Doily-Mats, of which the following is a description.

This invention relates to table-mats and has special reference to a combination of means forming what I have termed a doilymat, as a new article of table-furniture,

Among the objects of my invention may noted the following: to provide means whereby table-mats maybe composed of ornamental doilies now commonly-used as table ornaments; to provide a table-mat composed of heat non-conducting material combined with an ornamental cover of cooperative structure; and to provide means whereby table-mats-of non-conducting material may be combined I with ornamental doilies so that the useful effects of the one accordance with my this description,

and the ornamental effects of the other may be combined in a single article.

With the above objects in view, and others which will be detailed during the course of the invention consists in the parts, features and combinations of elements hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this description: Figure 1 shows in top plan the cover for the mat made in invention and having ornamental lines of stitching applied there to in order to secure esthetic effects; Fig. 2 is. a bottom plan view of the mat-cover made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 3 is a plan of the mat made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 4 is a central section taken substantially on the line 44 of Fig. 2, showing the mat removed from the cover and both the articles doubled so as to disclose thelmanner in-which the ar-. ticles are manipulated to place the mat in the cover; Fig. 5 is a View similar to Fig. 1, showing another form of my invention; Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing the form of my invention of Fig. 5; Fig. 7

is a section on the line 77 of Fig. 6, showing the cover 'opened ready for t-he-intro duct-ion of the mat; Fig. 8 is a plan of the mat used in connection with the cover of Fig. 7; and Fig. 9 is a section of the mat on Specification of Letters Patent.

' formed Patented Aug. 27, 1912.

Application filed November 6, 1906. Serial No. 342,225.

showing the mat folded ready for insertion folded as shown in Fig. 7.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 4, the numeral 1 indicates the top section of the cover, 2 and 3 the bottom sections of the cover, the said bottom sections being made semi-circular and their straight edges to extend slightly more than half way across the diameter of the top section, in order that said straight or inner edges may overlap, as shown by the heavy line 4 of the section 2, which overlaps the section 3, as indicated by the dotted line 5. The three sections are secured together around their peripheries preferably by ornamental stitching, indicated by 6, said stitching consequently having the two functions of securing the cover-sections together and of ornamenting the combined peripheries. This mode of connecting the several sections or parts of the cover produces a pocket which extendssubstantially to the periphery of the combined cover-sections, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, and the overlapping edges 4 and 5 of the bottom sections 0 nstitute the mouth ofthe pocket li tween the top and'bottom sections. If desired, any character of embroidery or ornamental stitches can be applied to the top section 1 of the cover, as indicated by 7, thus making the article as eflectively ornamental as desired. The mat which is to be inserted in the pocket of the cover is shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and consists of the two semi-circular parts 8 and 9'joined together along their straight edges by strips or pieces of flexible material 10 applied thereto on opposite sides and leaving between the two said straight edges of the mat-sections a central, flexible hinge indicated by 11, the said mat-sections being thus capable of being folded other, as shown in Fig. 4, in order to adapt the same for easy and quick one upon the admission to. the pocket formed in the cover. In order to or designs stay or bind the edges of the flexible mat thus made, a binding of flexible material, indicated by 12, is applied, by any suitable means, such as glue, or by a line 0 stitching 13, which may be straight or zigzag, on opposite sides of the mat, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The mat thus made may be folded as. shown in Fig. 4 and inserted in the or colored silks; and

' latter and the pocket of the cover when folded as shown in said figure, so that one may readily receive the other.

Instead of making the top and bottom sections of the cover of substantially the same dimensions, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2-, the cover may be formed as shown in'Figs. 5, 6 and 7 that is, the section 14 of the cover may be made considerably larger than the combined sections 15 and 16, Fig. 6, which latter may be made sufiiciently large to cover only the desired amount of the central portion of the section 14, as may be necessary, to make a pocket sufiiciently large to receive the desired size of mat to be used in connection with the cover. Thus made, the straight edges 17 and 18 of the sections 15 and 16, respectively, will overlap so as to close the pocket in the cover, in the same manner as indicated in Fig. 2, and the circumference of the two sections 15 and 16 will be stitched to the section 14 and simultaneously completely covered by ornamental stitching 19. In this figure, the smaller sections form the bottom of the cover and the larger section the top; but, as shown in Fig. 5, the top section 20, may be the smaller and the bot tom section 21 the larger, in which case the latter will be provided with a pocket opening'or slit indicated by the dotted line 22. \Vhichever way made, this cover will be capable of being folded as shown in Fig. 7 so as to receive the mat of Fig. 8 folded as in Fig. 9, and which mat is in all material respects substantially the same as that shown in Fig. 3, it being smaller only to adapt it to the smaller pocket of the form of Figs. 5 and 6.

As indicated by the several figures, it will be seen that there is practically no limit to the ornamental effects which may be produced in connection with the covers, both by reason of the structural features of the embroidery stitching which may be applied 'both to the body and to the edges of the material of the cover and that the shape of the completedarticle may be varied practically without limitation, and that oval forms, for long dishes or platters, as well as circular and the irregular shapes shown in the drawings may also be made. The edge of the cover shown in Figs. 5 and namental stitching 22, as clearly shown.

The material 'or fabric of which the covers are composed is not of consequence, but neat and ornamental effects may be produced by using white linens or similar materials with ornamental stitching of white the mat is composed is not of the essence of my invention, except that such material 6 W111 have applied thereto orthe material of which should be substantially heat non-conducting; and the binding to prevent the edges from roughing or fraying should be of tape or other durable material. An essential feature of the mat, however, is that it is made of a plurality of sections between which there is a flexible hinge enabling said sections to be folded so as to be readily inserted in the pocket formed in the cover; and an essential feature of the cover is that its parts are so combined that it may be folded and the mat inserted and removed therefrom easily and quickly without mussing the cover after it has been laundried or finished and without tearing or dis torting the same. Another essential feature of my invention is that the sections of the mat are flexibly connected and the sections of the cover are connected so as to form a mat-receiving pocket, to which corresponds in position substantially to the position of the flexible hinge of the mat, whereby the mat may be easily and quickly inserted in or removed from the coverwithout mussing or tearing the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A doily mat comprising a non-heat conducting member formed in two parts, each part having a straight edge, and a flexible hinge strip connecting the slightly separated straight edges of said parts, and a detachable fabric cover member for said parts formed of a single upper piece and two under 'pieces stitched at their outer edges to the upper piece, each of which under pieces has a free straight edge oneoverlapping the other between which edges the non-heat conducting member-is inserted.

2. A oily mat comprising a non-heat conducting member formed in two parts, each part being a straight edge, and a flexible hinge strip joining the straight edges of said parts to permit them to fold, and a detachable fabric cover member for the nonheat conducting member comprising an up' per and an under part, oneof said parts being diametrically divided and arranged to overlap at the division, said cover member being divided into two pockets when folded for the insertion of the two. parts of the heat resisting member which latter when straightened is wholly within said cover member.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM N. PARKES.

Witnesses:

J. B. MCGIBR, W. W. Kn'ronou. 

